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Boring under slab commercial kitchen project

01-29-2013, 08:41 AM

A Plumber friend gave Me this one. A 2'" C.I LINE has the bottom rotted out. Maybe they used acid over the years.
Had My Guys cut slab 24" x 7 ft. Had it camered N located. Because of all the freezers N access ,We are core drilling a 3" hole through a 2 ft. wall footer. It was tough , but they have a rough hole through !This Morn I go to My shop ,cut the shank on the core bitt, add a 3' section of rod and weld it up.This new line intersects the 2nd pit at an angle ! This is how I do it. With a chalk line I snap lines on concrete else ware. I measure the line length and offset. So I have one straight line . and a second intersecting line. Above the pit I drop down two strings ,with 3/4" metal nuts. just above My 3/4" boring pipe. AS I start boring My helper. holds a plumbers 1/4" fall level on the pipe for Me. I use a simple BIRZIT setup. My Plumber asked Me to tie in My end of line ,He "ll do the one at the other end. It;s a private club ,all time material with each of Equept. charged out. I love doing all the trades,It's always interisting !

I can build anything You want , if you draw a picture of it , on the back of a big enough check .

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Rick, you should know old that timers don't believe in spending money they don't have too.

Why but it, when you can make it...ya know?

Now all you have to do is grind it off when you want to go back to using the bit w/o the extension.

"When we build let us think we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work that our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! This our fathers did for us."
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

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Well I picked up a 4" bosh core bitt. cut it ,added a 24" shaft. Worked great. I never drilled through clay this dense .
Lots of extra work on this project. My old faithful timber wolf started smoking. Now I have a new Hole Hawg, Nice drill

I can build anything You want , if you draw a picture of it , on the back of a big enough check .

Well I picked up a 4" bosh core bitt. cut it ,added a 24" shaft. Worked great. I never drilled through clay this dense .
Lots of extra work on this project. My old faithful timber wolf started smoking. Now I have a new Hole Hawg, Nice drill

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Some tricks with Borzit in Hard clay. Just did 2" PVC In clay " Hard as a Hoar's Heart " In the entry Pit , My helper Uses a dirt bar to push pipe coupling. In the building pit ,I pull with a cumalong attached to a plate with 3/8" red heads to concrete floor.
To pull the 2" PVC . I take an end cap drill a 3/8" hole .insert a 3/8" Machine bold Eye bolt with Large washer N nut inside , nut outside, Red hot Glue- fast set.Next Job in hard clay, I will use Electrician's Pulling lub. on outside of PVC. I don't know if this will help. We'll see.On extracting a long run of 3/4" Galvy drill pipe I fabbed a pipe puller. 3/8" chain W hook. attached with 3"x3" square plate. Plate Has a 1" hole Grabs Pips to earth anchor in dirt. Hope this helps Another . Beth N I are of to ZIP line through the wine country forests ! Turned 70 Yesterday, " OLD N BOLD " Tool